.@contrappasta Well see, the wording is that the walls were "prepared," not built.

Ymir's implied that she's seen some shit, given that she's outright said "I once thought I should've never been born, I would've been happier that way." There's also the fact that she turns into a titan, and that she "got a second chance at life," that her name has some sorta meaning behind it, and that she was "hated simply for existing," and she "died for the sake of many people's happiness."

Way I see it, she was part of the walls, which was her first death and why she was so miserable. It's possible that Bert inadvertently freed her when he knocked a hole in the first wall, since she's a small titan and maybe she was somewhere near the doors, or that she got out some other way. Either way, that would explain the second chance at life bit too.

There's also the part where the one titan prostrated itself before the girl and talked about "Ymir's people." This is where it gets more shaky and speculative, but I think that it might have recognized the girl not necessarily as resembling Ymir, but instead as a human being, and the only humans are in the city protected by the walls made from Ymir's family. In other words, Ymir's people. So maybe Ymir is actually her family name or summat.

tl;dr Ymir's clan was used to "prepare" the walls, possibly due to some sorta political conflict that took place before humanity reached the new world.

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